Machine for making tassel-blanks



(No Model.)

1). HEER. MACHINE FOR MAKING TASSEL BLANKS, &Q. No. 292,009. Patented Jan. 15, 1884.

UNrrnn STATES Parana Prion.

DAVID on PHILADELPHIA, Penn'sYL'vANIA.

MACHINE FOR 'IVIAKlNG'TASSEL-BLAN'KS, 8.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,009, dated January 15, 1884.

(No model.)

other yarn, form parts of tassels; and my invention consists of devices, fully described hereinafter, for forming surfaces on such blanks.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the machine for shaving tassel-blanks; Fig. 2, a view of part of Fig. 1, showing how the holding spindle may be tilted to receive the blank; Fig. 3, a vertical section on the line 1 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 4., a sectional plan, drawn to an enlarged scale, of part of themachine, on the line 3 1 and Fig. 5, a View of the crude blank to be operated on by the machine.

To a bench or table, A, are secured standards B B, forming guides for a slide, D, which is connected by a rod, a, to the long arm of the lever E, the short arm being so weighted that it has a tendency to maintain the slide in the elevated position shown in Fig. 1. The outer end of the long arm of the lever is connected by a rod, (2, to a treadle, F, pivoted to the supporting-frame of the table, and conveniently situated for the foot of the operator. Two blades, b b, are secured one to each side of the slide D, the lower cutting-edge of each blade being preferably of the angular form shown in Fig. 1.

WVooden tasselblanks on which the silk or other thread has to be wound are of many different shapes. They may, for instance, be cylindrical or conical, and the blanks are often ornamented with spiral flutes or ribs. In the present case the blank is in the form of a double frustum of a cone, as shown in Fig. 5, and the machine is constructed to form six flat sides on the blank.

On the table A, immediately below the cutting-edges of the blades, is a bed, G, recessed to receive the blank 20, which has an orifice,

permit the free tilting of the spindle.

so as to be fitted to the portion h of a spindle, H, the latter having its bearings e e in slots in projections on a plate, I, secured to the table A, so that the spindle can be slightly tilted, as shown in Fig. 2, when a blank has to be fitted to the end h,- and in order that the spindle may not be displaced fromits bearings, it passes through an opening in one of the standards, the opening being such, however, as to A collar, M, is secured to the spindle H, and in this collar are notches xsiX in the present instance-placed at equal distances apart; and a light spring, N, secured at one end to the plate I, has near its outer end a retainingpin adapted to the notches. The blank w having been fitted to the portion h of the tilted spindle, the latter is depressed, so that the blank will bear in therecess of the bed G, after which the operator depresses the treadle and causes the knives to shave the opposite sides of the blank and form fiat spaces thereon. When the blades have been elevated, owing to the releasing of the treadle, the spindle is slightly tilted and turned to the extent of one-third of a revolution, as determined by a notch in the collar, and two more fiat surfaces are formed on the blank by the blades, a third action of the blades completing the blank, which has the desired six surfaces.

If three or any other unequal number of surfaces have to be made on the blank, a single blade only must be used.

The cutting-edges of the blades may be made to form other than fiat surfaces on the blank. The cutters may, for instance, be formed to so shave the blanks as to form there on rounded or concave surfaces.

Whatever may be the shape of the blank to be shaved the recess in the bed G must correspond therewith, and it will be understood that the collarM is removable from the spindle, to which other collars having notches arranged as the desired number of sides to be formed on the blank may be applied.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a tassel-blank cutter, of the guided slide D, its blade or blades, and mechanism for operating the said slide,

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with the bed G and a rotating spindle, H, 1361, of the slide and its blade or blades, and carrying the blank, and having its axis at the bed G, with the spindle H, its notchedcolright angles, or thereabout, to the plane of lar, and spring-retainer. movement of the slide D, as set forth. In testimonywhereof I have signed myname 2. The combination, in a tassel-blank cut- I to this specification in the presence of two subter, of the slide and its blade 01' blades, with scribing witnesses. a bed, G, and with a spindle, H, and With DAVID HEER. bearings constructed to permit both the tnrning and tilting of the said spindle.

3. The combination, in a tassel-blank cut- \Vitnesses:

HARRY L. ASHENFELTER, HARRY SMITH. 

